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Watch Twang Factor 2 winner Jess Jocoy’s stunning AUK exclusive Winner’s Session

October 27, 2021 Clint West 0
Jess Jocoy plays three breathtaking songs to celebrate her recent win. You won’t want to miss this! The votes are counted and the winners declared. However, this year’s Twang Factor isn’t quite finished yet because we […]
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Beans On Toast “Not Everybody Thinks We’re Doomed” – is this what you Humans call optimism?

October 27, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
An uplifting and optimistic new song from Beans on Toast, with support from Blaine & Jack from Mystery Jets.  The world’s unpredictability is what makes it brilliant is the message that Beans wishes to convey, as […]
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Classic Americana Albums: The Long Ryders “Native Sons”

October 27, 2021 Clint West 2
Following its October 1984 US release on Frontier Records, ‘Native Sons’ hit the UK in March 1985 when it was picked up and released by Demon Records’ Zippo label. Despite some success on the US college […]
Album Reviews

Gordie Tentrees “Mean Old World”

October 27, 2021 Mark Nenadic 0
Far-flung Canadian acoustic, rootsy goodness. Rich and rewarding. From the vast wilderness of the Yukon, to suburban ears in the United Kingdom. Probably not the journey that the Canuck folkies of a century gone by were […]
Book Reviews

Paperback Riders: Kenneth Allsop “Hard Travellin'”

October 27, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 1
A wide-ranging account of the American hobo life by a rather forgotten man of English broadcasting. Kenneth Allsop died in 1973 and until now he has been nothing more than a dim memory in the head […]

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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

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Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]
Album Reviews

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

May 15, 2026 0
Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]
Book Reviews

Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

May 15, 2026 0
Patrick Joseph O’Connor’s Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community reclaims an overlooked part in American musicology. While places like Chicago, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta often dominate the story of Blues, O’Connor suggests that […]

  • Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”
  • Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”
  • Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”
  • Classic Clips: Albert Lee “Country Boy” Live on BBC Radio 2’s ‘Weekend Wogan’ – 28th March 2010
  • Don’t forget our Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more – join us in Liverpool in November!
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Interview: Daniel Tashian on being a reluctant band leader and the joys of songwriting collaborations

May 14, 2026 0
Daniel Tashian is a legend in Nashville. He’s a deeply respected songwriter, he’s a solo artist with six albums to his name, he’s been in two superb bands, and he’s the go-to guy when you want […]
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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0
The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
Interviews

Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0
“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

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Pick of the political pops: Kacey Musgraves “Oh, What A World”

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Kacey Musgraves this week expressed her anger over the US government’s stance on gun reform, following two mass shootings in the US this past weekend. “I don’t know what the answer is but obviously something has […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Nils Lofgren “Dear Heartbreaker”

October 27, 2025 0
In 2019, eight years after his last studio release (“Old School”), Nils Lofgren reached back into the archives for six songs he recorded with Lou Reed and put those together with four songs of his own […]
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Jeffrey Foucault “Blood Brothers” (Blueblade Records/Tone Tree, 2018)

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Time is precious. Things to do. People to see. So straight to the point. ‘Blood Brothers’ by Jeffrey Foucault is a bloody marvellous album. There are many albums that are slow growers, gradually getting under the […]

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